November 24, 2017
By Andrew McCarty
Aligning Ourselves with God’s Generosity

As we stare down the arrival of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I wonder what it would look like for us to cultivate excitement about what we can give rather than expectation of what we’ll receive.

November 18, 2017
By Rachel Kuhn
Being Good Guests in the Land

At Thanksgiving we are guests at God’s table of healing and grace. As good guests, we receive his grace and forgiveness and carry it out into the world to be agents of healing, even in the places where we have brought the brokenness.

November 14, 2017
By Brenda Jo Wong
The Painful Gift of Cultural Displacement

Sometimes God displaces us and sometimes we choose displacement to survive, thrive, or walk in obedience to God. However we end up being displaced, whether through persecution, a natural disaster, or by choice, such as taking a specific job, God uses displacement to shape us and draw us closer to him. 

November 06, 2017
By Gabi Campanella
More Than Consumers

What we are called says something about our identity and our purpose.

October 30, 2017
By Bridget Gee
How to Be Smart and Intentional About Our Media Consumption

Now more than ever, there is a prophetic call on our lives as children of the Creator God to be set apart from the ways technology can turn art into an idol. I am not advocating that we as Christians walk away from the art of this world. But I do have some suggestions for how we can live responsibly into this call.

October 24, 2017
By Steve Tamayo
Disappointment with Jesus

Lately, I’ve been struggling a great deal with feelings of disappointment with Jesus. I’m not entirely sure when they started, but I can see the impact they’ve had: I start to distance myself from Jesus. I shy away from taking risks for the sake of God’s kingdom. I sink into my couch.

October 18, 2017
By Paula Frances Price
What Is Sexual Harassment, and How Can We Change the Culture?

As the hashtag #MeToo floods our social media outlets to raise awareness for sexual harassment, we need to ask how we got to the point where almost every woman has experienced some type of it. How did our world become a place where so many women are treated with such little respect?

October 13, 2017
By Lisa Rieck
What Difference Does Prayer Make in the World?

Do I really believe that change would come if I stopped my “actions” and “just” prayed for reconciliation and justice and provision for those in need? And do I really believe, when I am working for justice, that it’s actually God who brings about the change, and not me? Most of the time, I’m not sure I do.

October 06, 2017
By Brittany Small
The Attitudes That Keep Us from True Community

Finding community is hard. We cautiously and optimistically put ourselves out there—we make introductions, learn names, give hugs, take risks, and make invitations like we’re staving off a great white shark in a scene from Jaws. And just like Martin Brody, we’re preoccupied with one question: “Will I survive this?”

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